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SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 BETA Program Starting

ddavis — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:14:33 -0700

Novell is about to begin the Beta programs for SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 which is expected to be released early in 2009. There will be a general Beta program for end customers, and there will be a separate Beta program for ISVs to help them get their applications ready for when SUSE Linux Enteprise Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 ships. We are planning on following the Linux Standard Base Version 4.0 (which is in development now) with the release of SLE 11

Binary Compatibility Issue between Linux Distributions and Versions

ddavis — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:22:26 -0700

I was recently working with a Third-Party ISV that had run into an issue of binary compatibility with their application they built on RHEL 5 while running it on SUSE Linux Enterprise 10. I wanted to point this out for any other developers that may run into this issue. When they built their C and C++ applications on RHEL 5 and ran it on SLES 10, they would get a "Floating Point Exception". This problem also exists between RHEL 4 and RHEL 5. It turned out that there was a change in the hash style of the ELF format generated with newer versions of GCC.

The Age of the Linux Netbook is Upon Us...

ddavis — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:22:40 -0700

This summer has seen a flurry of activity in the Linux Netbook market. These are machines that are small form factor, low cost, typically have solid state storage (though some have hard disks), and offer the traveler or student a light-weight machine for quick email and web. The idea started with the One Laptop Per Child project using Fedora with it's ambitious goal of putting a laptop in the hands of children the world over. The ASUS Eee PC kicked off the main stream consumer use with their Xandros Linux based system. HP has their Mini-Note, and MSI announced the Wi